Hexus Acquired by Harvey AI: Congrats & What It Means for Demo Automation Teams

If you're a Hexus user, you probably got the email in January. Harvey AI, the legal tech company valued at $8 billion, acquired Hexus. The platform shuts down April 20, 2026.

First: congratulations to Sakshi, Kunal, and the entire Hexus team. Seriously. Building something good enough to get acquired is hard. Most startups don't make it. This is a win.

But if you relied on Hexus for demos, you've got about three months to figure out what's next. I've been building in the sales automation space since GoCustomer.ai, and I'm now working on Rep. So I have opinions on this. I also have some perspective on what this acquisition means for demo automation as a category.

Here's what you need to know.

What Actually Happened with the Hexus Acquisition?

Harvey AI acquired Hexus in late 2025, with the deal closing in Q4. The public announcement came January 21, 2026, followed by a formal integration announcement on January 24. According to Hexus's official blog post, the platform will continue operating until April 20, 2026, then shut down completely.

This was an acqui-hire. Harvey wanted the engineering team—particularly founder Sakshi Pratap's expertise from Google, Oracle, and Walmart—not to run Hexus as a standalone product.

Key Insight: Harvey's CTO Siva Gurumurthy said Sakshi and Kunal have "a great understanding of enterprise products, strong technical acumen, and a customer-centric mindset." That's acqui-hire language. They bought the people.

Harvey is using Hexus's technology to solve what I'd call the "last mile" problem in legal AI. They've built powerful document analysis tools, but lawyers still need to explain those tools to clients. Hexus's video-generation and interactive demo capabilities solve that. The Hexus engine gets repurposed for legal workflows, not general B2B demos.

What does this mean for you? If you're not a Harvey customer in the legal space, Hexus's features won't be available to you after April 20.

Why This Acquisition Validates Demo Automation

I want to be honest about something. When I saw this news, my first reaction wasn't "great opportunity for Rep." It was "this proves demo automation matters."

Here's why. Harvey AI is an $8 billion company. They raised $760 million in 2025, including a $160 million Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz. Companies at that scale don't make acquisitions for fun. They bought Hexus because visual, interactive product experiences are becoming essential infrastructure.

The Data: The share of B2B companies with interactive product demos nearly doubled from 17% to 31% in just one year (2023-2024), according to Navattic's State of Interactive Demo 2025 report.

And the buyer behavior data backs this up. Gartner's 2024 B2B Buying Survey found 75% of B2B buyers prefer gathering information independently without sales contact. A separate Gartner survey from August-September 2024 found 61% prefer completely rep-free buying experiences.

That's not a trend. That's a structural shift. Demo automation isn't a nice-to-have anymore.

What Hexus Users Are Losing

Let me be specific about what made Hexus valuable, because understanding this helps you pick the right replacement.

Hexus positioned itself as the affordable option. Their pricing started at $49/month versus the $500+ industry average. That mattered for startups and small teams.

But the real differentiator was their AI-native approach:

That auto-refresh technology was genuinely unique. I haven't seen anyone else replicate it well. When evaluating alternatives, this is the gap you'll feel most.

Your Migration Timeline (Start Now)

You have approximately three months. That sounds like plenty of time. It's not.

Here's what I'd do:

Week 1-2: Export Everything

Contact team@usehexus.com immediately. Request bulk export assistance. Don't wait until March when support will be overwhelmed.

Download:

• All MP4 video files
• PDF and HTML exports
• Source recordings
• Screenshots of your analytics (you'll want these for ROI discussions)

Important caveat: these exports are for archival. You can't upload an MP4 into Navattic and make it interactive again. Migration means rebuilding, not transferring.

Week 3-6: Evaluate Alternatives

Create a shortlist of 3-5 tools. Run real trials. I'll cover the options below.

Week 7-10: Implement and Recreate

Don't try to recreate everything. Pull your Hexus analytics. Identify your top 10 most-viewed demos. Rebuild those first. Some of your old demos are probably outdated anyway.

Common mistake: Teams try to migrate 100% of their content and miss the deadline. Prioritize ruthlessly. The demo you created 18 months ago for a feature you've since redesigned? Let it go.

April 15: Complete Cutover

Give yourself a 5-day buffer before shutdown. Update website embeds, redirect old URLs, notify your team.

Hexus Alternatives: Honest Comparison

I'm going to give you my take on the main options. Yes, I'm building Rep, so I have bias. I'll be upfront about where Rep fits and where it doesn't.

For Budget-Conscious Teams: Supademo

Supademo at $27/creator/month is the closest price match to Hexus. It has AI voiceovers, HTML capture, multi-language support, and a free tier.

What you lose: Hexus's auto-refresh. You'll need to manually update demos when your product changes.

Best for: Startups and small teams who prioritized Hexus's affordability.

For Marketing Website Tours: Navattic

Navattic (4.8/5 on G2) dominates the marketing use case. Strong embeddable tours, good analytics, ABM integrations with tools like 6sense and HubSpot.

Pricing: $500-$1,200/month.

The Data:Navattic's benchmark data shows interactive product tours achieve 8%-32% CTR on calls-to-action, versus 0.7%-3.7% typical of B2B emails and ads. That's a massive difference.

Best for: Marketing teams focused on website conversion and lead capture.

For Hybrid Flexibility: Storylane

Storylane (4.8/5 on G2) is probably the closest functional replacement because it supports both video and HTML capture, like Hexus did.

They also have "Lily," an AI agent for conversational demos, plus 65+ AI voices in 25 languages.

Pricing: Estimated $500-$1,000/month.

Best for: Teams wanting minimal workflow disruption during migration.

For Enterprise Presales: Consensus

Consensus (4.9/5 on G2—highest rated in category) is the enterprise option. Used by 15 of the top 30 software companies. Their Demolytics feature tracks who watches demos within buying groups.

Pricing: Median $23,781/year.

The Data: According to Consensus customer data, teams using demo automation close deals 2× faster with 50% larger deal sizes on average.

They also raised $110 million in May 2024, so vendor stability isn't a concern.

Best for: Large presales teams needing stakeholder analytics and enterprise features.

For Sales-Delivered Personalized Demos: Walnut

Walnut (4.8/5 on G2) focuses on creating sandbox environments that are immune to downtime. Their "AI Mode™" automatically personalizes demos based on CRM data.

Best for: Teams with dedicated Sales Engineers who need live, personalized product demonstrations.

For Live AI Demos: Rep

This is what we're building at Rep. And I want to be clear about what it is and isn't.

Rep is a completely different approach. Instead of recorded, interactive content, Rep is an AI sales agent that joins video calls live, shares its screen, navigates your actual product, and answers questions in real-time.

It's not a Hexus replacement in the traditional sense. You wouldn't use Rep to embed a tour on your website. You'd use Rep to handle live demo requests—the meetings where a prospect clicks "Book a Demo" and an AI joins instead of (or before) a human.

Where Rep makes sense:

• After-hours demo requests (AI available 24/7)
• High-volume early-stage demos
• Freeing your AEs from repetitive product overviews

Where Rep doesn't fit:

• Website embeddable tours (use Navattic or Storylane)
• Self-guided product exploration (use Supademo)

Look, I'm not going to pretend Rep solves every use case. If you used Hexus primarily for website tours, Rep isn't your answer.

How to Choose the Right Alternative

Here's my honest framework:

Don't just match features. Think about:

1. What broke at Hexus for you? Several G2 reviews mentioned mobile rendering issues. Test mobile thoroughly on any alternative.
2. Do you need auto-updates? Hexus's auto-refresh was unique. If that mattered to you, ask vendors specifically how they handle product UI changes.
3. What's your real volume? Enterprise tools make sense at scale. If you have 5 demos total, Supademo is probably fine.

The Hexus shutdown is disruptive. I get it. But this is also an opportunity to upgrade your demo capabilities, not just replace them.

The demo automation space has evolved a lot since you first chose Hexus. We've seen this pattern before—AI features that felt bleeding-edge are now table stakes. You might end up with something better than what you had.

If you're exploring options and live demo automation fits your use case, check out Rep. If your needs are different—website tours, self-guided exploration—the other tools I mentioned are solid choices.

Either way, start exporting your Hexus content today. Three months goes fast.